on January 12, 2016
The animation by artist and musician Zviane and the research team Algomus is an original visualization of harmonic functions, that is, chords and their sequences, in the beginning of a Mozart piano sonata.
The emerging Algomus team, led by Mathieu Giraud, a CNRS researcher, is a collaboration between the CRIStAL laboratory - UMR 9189 and the MIS laboratory “Modelling, Information & Systems” (University of Picardie Jules Verne in Amiens). She does research in the digital humanities. Its purpose is to create computer methods to understand the construction of musical scores, in particular by identifying cadences and harmonic functions. One of Algomus’ research areas is also the modeling and visualization of musical analyses: how to transmit and share theoretical notions to musicians as well as to the general public?
Zviane is a comic strip artist and musician from Quebec. Zviane studied music composition and analysis, notably with Luce Baudet, from the Université de Montréal. Music occupies an important place in his life and in his comics, as in his albums «Les deuxièmes» and «Ping-Pong» (Pow-Pow editions). Zviane is particularly sensitive to harmonic analysis and its role in the construction of music. In 2010, she proposed a first representation of harmonic functions in the form of men. Realized with the support of the Visual Sciences and Cultures project, this animation is an opportunity to meet an original graphic universe and digital tools at the service of new cultural practices.
Algomus and Zviane wish to continue their collaboration to complete this film and realize new animations illustrating in an artistic and playful way other elements of musical analysis.
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